Nov. 21 Scrimmage

Task: To test our robot and gauge other team's progress

First, the team arrived at the Virani's house and boarded the MXP for a Arkansas dry run. We learned that it's pretty
bumpy for passengers when you're driving on the highway, making the experience a bit uncomfortable. We'll need to fix
that for the 8-hour drive to Arkansas.

When we arrived at the scrimmage, it was laid out like a normal tournament, though there were only nine teams to
compete against. The matches were laid out so that each team competed five times, but only four of those five matches
counted towards your actual score. During the first match, things were looking up. Our catapult and intake system were
looking great, we had scored two or three balls, and our driving was pretty nice. We ended up winning that match. Then,
everything went downhill. First, we had a issue with a loose chain, which we were able to fix. After that, however, our
robot's catapult jammed so we had no useful way to score. This led to us losing our other three matches.

Despite all this, we ended up 6th place out of nine teams, which isn't *horrible*. We were also picked for an alliance.

Reflections

There are teams very ahead of us, so we need to step our game up for Arkansas. Our next goals, in order, should be to
fix the chain system permanently, stop the catapult from jamming, add the beacon presser, and add the yoga-ball
lifter. However, our collection system was really nice and worked >95% of the time. The only problem with it was that
balls occasionally got stuck on top of the robot delivering to the catapult.